Egg tray



Patented- Feb. 8, 1927.

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EGG- TRAY.

Application led April 27, [1926. Serial No.7104,940.

This invention relates to an improved egg tray of the type whereinprovision is made to automatically turn the eggs over and over atpredetermined periods of time to facilitate hatching in an incubator.

Briefly, the invention comprises an appropriate metal tray equipped witha plurality of egg supporting rollers spaced properly to receive amultiplicity of eggs in a well known manner. Disposed over this seriesof rollers is a rotary shaft which is manually operated, and this shafthas operating connection with the rollers thru the medium of means whichconstitutes the novelty-of this invention. i

My object is to generally improve upon inventions of this nature byproviding a structure which is believed to be a decided improvement onsimilar known devices in that it is more simple in construction,"positive in operation, and easily repaired;

Other objects and advantages'of the 1nventi'on will become apparent fromthe following description and drawings.

In the accompanying drawings being of general rectangular form, and thevside members being of right angular crosssection. Rotat'ably mounted onthe vertical walls of the tray in the manner shown are the eggsupporting rollers. These may be of wood and the pivots may be of anypreferred form. Also, they are spaced in'parallelism at. suitabledistances to properly support tlie'eggs. The manner'of placement of theeggs is well known and is, therefore, not shown in the drawings. Vft maybe added, however, that the rollers are ydisposed at an elevation in thetray to prevent easy loss when handling the tray,

The rotary shaft is designated by the nul forming av part of thisapplication and in which likev meral 3 and it will be seen that it ismounted l Y for rotation in suitable bearings -`formedin Vthe end wallsofthe tray. By preference,

it is'arranged' at the center of the tray and is spaced above thecentral portionsy .of the rollers. It will be noticed that one .end ofthe shaft projects beyond the tray and is constructed to accommodate aremovable employed for imparting rotation tol the rollers comprises' aplurality of flexible. elements 5, therey being one `for each roller.v

One end of each vcord .or element is conn-ected as at 6 to Itheishaftover thev proper roller, andthe other end is attached to the shaft as at7. Then too, the, intermediate portion of this cord is wrapped or coiledyabout the'roller as indicated at 8.` It will also be noted that'one endportion of the cord is wrapped around the shaft as plainly shown in Fig.t. i

l/Vithv the arrangement shown and described, it will be seen thatbyplacing thel crank lin place andturning the shaft, the rollers will besimultaneously rotated one half-turn; For instance, when the cords areVin the Vposition-shown in Fig. 4:, and the shaft is turned in yadirection from left to right, the end .of the cord [which is thenwrapped will unwrap and the other end will wrap. Obviously, thisoperation will rotate` As all of the cordsv the roller beneath it. actin the same manner, all of the rollers will be automatically turned andthe eggs will turn to change their positions. In this manner the eggscan be turned from time to time to accomplish the ydesired result.

It is believed that by considering the drawings in connection withthe'description, a clear understanding ofthe invention will be had. Forthis reason, a more detailed explanation is deemed unnecessary.

Minor changes coming within'the invention as claimed-maybe resorted towithout departing from the spirit of the invention. l'claim: AAn eggturner comprising a tray, a plu-- rality of egg supporting rollersmount-ed for rotation in said tray and disposed in.

spaced parallelism and-in the same' plane with each other to receive theeggs, a single shaft mounted for rotation in the tray over the rollers,said shaft being disposed over vthe central portions of the rollers,means for rotating the shaft, and means for simultaneously turning allofY the rollers, said means comprising a plurality of flexible elements,there being one for each roller and the ends of said element beingattached to the shaft and the intermediate portion being Wrapped aroundthe coniplernental roller. Y n

1n testimony WhereoI hereunto aiix my signature.

EDGAR GARDNER GALKINS.

